Schaerbeek · 1030
Zinc work & gutters à Schaerbeek
Hanging gutters, box gutters, downpipes, valleys and flashings in zinc or aluminium. In Schaerbeek nine calls out of ten are about water coming in through the cornice.
7 km from our depot in Grimbergen
What that changes here
This is the most requested job in Brussels, and the most underestimated. The box gutter runs from party wall to party wall, behind a cornice that is sometimes protected, on a deck nobody has ever seen. We strip the first course of the covering to expose the whole box: doing half a job on a box gutter makes no sense.
Schaerbeek is the municipality of the 1890-1910 town house: tall, narrow facades, ornate cornices, mansard roofs in slate and a box gutter that disappears entirely behind the cornice. Around Josaphat Park and in Terdelt the 1930s are added to that, and their concrete tiles are now reaching the end of their life.
What we get called out for in Schaerbeek
In Schaerbeek nine calls out of ten are about water coming in through the cornice. The town houses there have a box gutter running from wall to wall, often still in lead or in zinc with no expansion joint, with a timber deck underneath quietly rotting. The second most common request is the lower slope of the mansard: slates working loose one after another.
Schaerbeek porte le code postal 1030 et se situe in the Brussels-Capital Region. Notre équipe part de Grimbergen, à 7 km : nous y planifions la zinguerie en même temps que les chantiers de Evere, Brussels et Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, pour qu’un déplacement serve plusieurs toitures.
- 01Survey
- 02Sizing
- 03Forming
- 04Fitting
The full technical detail of this service is on the page Zinc work & gutters.
Zinc formed and soldered on site, no glued joints
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Pour un devis, la visite à Schaerbeek se fixe en général sous quelques jours ouvrés. Nous partons de Grimbergen, à 7 km, et nous groupons nos visites par secteur : si un chantier tourne déjà cette semaine à Evere ou Brussels, cela peut aller plus vite. En cas de fuite active, nous venons d’abord bâcher et sécuriser ; la zinguerie n’est chiffrée qu’ensuite.
Zinc is still the benchmark: forty to fifty years, solderable, repairable, and it takes a patina. Coated aluminium costs less, goes up faster and comes in every colour, but its joints are glued or riveted, so they are weaker over time. Galvanised steel we advise against wherever there is road salt or urban air.
In most cases it is undersized, or it serves too much area for a single downpipe. A good Belgian downpour delivers more water than a standard gutter can carry away. The fix is rarely to replace everything: an extra downpipe and resized outlets are usually enough.
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Zinc work & gutters à Schaerbeek
We come out, we go up onto the roof, we photograph. The quotation follows within 24 working hours, item by item.
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The visit costs nothing and the quotation follows within 24 hours. One call is enough to know where you stand.